Monday, July 9, 2018

People’s Army and Prolonged Popular War

Ruling socialist
party (PSUV) leader and pro-government Constitutive Assembly member Pedro
Carreño believes that, in the case of a conflict with the United States “or
Colombia,” the new “military doctrine” of Venezuela should be “the war waged by
all the people.”

Carreño says he has a
proposal to “integrate the party (PSUV) to the prolonged popular war. [There
are] 13,682 Bolívar-Chávez Battle Units (UBCH), each UBCH will form a platoon.”
The UBCH are the electoral mobilization units of the PSUV.

Carreño offered
himself as one of the leaders of this new people’s army: “I call all patriots
to look at themselves in the mirror of Sadam Hussein and Gadhafi. We the
leaders need to set the example of suffering and restlessness and tell the
world that our luck is bound to the luck of the people.”

On the economic war
front, Carreño declared that inflation in Venezuela is “totally induced,” and
therefore the country needs to take “war actions.” These actions would be
directed against the Web portal dolartoday:

“Comandante Chávez left us [armed forces] with excellent electronic
war units to hack all dolartoday and similar pages, which generate an increase
in the Dollar-Bolívar reference. […] We need to inoculate them with a thousand Trojans.”